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Jean Baptiste Bottineau (Boutineau), a 
French-Chippewa, mixed blood, successful fur-trader, 
surveyor, real estate broker, lawyer, justice of the 
peace. United States and State timber agent, sutler 
in the U. S. military service, and counsel and repre- 
sentative at Washington, D. C, of the Turtle Mount- 
ain Band of Chippewas, was born in the Territory of 
Dakota on the 3rd day of May, 1837 (-38), and after 
a long illness died on December 1st, 1911, at his 
home, 212 A Street, N. E., Washington, D C. 

He was the son of M. Pierre Bottineau, the 
noted guide and civil and military scout, of the 
Northwest, and Genevieve Larance. On the 17th 
day of November, 1862, Mr Bottineau married Miss 
Marie Renville, the daughter of Mr Francois Renville 
and Mrs Margueritte Dumas Renville. The children 
of this union were three daughters, Marie Louise, 
Lillian Ann, and Alvina Clementa, the last of whom 
died in infancy. 

Mr Bottineau was a man of great force of char- 
acter, of superior intellectual ability and of a broad 
humanitarian spirit. He was generous to a fault, 
and delighted in aiding the oppressed and afflicted; 
he was a successful business man and in the fur- 
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x^. two good fortunes, which he later lost through his 

N^ devotion to the interests of his tribe. The events at 

^ the close of the civil war also contributed to the loss 

of his funds, for he had with his uncle Mr Charles 

Bottineau invested all his money in the fur business. 

Together they lost about $80,000. 

His early life as a citizen was spent at 
St. Anthony's Falls, now Minneapolis, where he 
studied and practiced law, and held the office of 
justice of the peace for a number of years. 

About twenty years ago he took up his residence 
in Washington, D. C, for the purpose of represent- 
ing his tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa 
of North Dakota, and to prosecute the claim of this 
tribe against the government. He spent many 
thousands of dollars out of his own pocket in the 
prosecution of these claims, for which he was never 
renumerated. 

He was a strong and consistent advocate of a 
liberal education for the Indian of today, — industrial, 
technical, professional, and moral. He strongly 
approved and supported the policy of the U. S. 
Indian Office in maintaining such schools for the 
education of the Indian as that at Carlisle, Pennsyl- 
vania. He was in earlier years a great reader, and 
had dipped into books on liberal thought and on 
mysticism. He died in the faith of the Roman 
Catholic Church. 

(J.N.B.H.) 

Contributed by Mrs Marie L. Baldwin 
(nee Bottineau) in memory of her father 



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